Adventures in Yucatan, Mexico

And so it begins! We are off and running on another winter program with our students from the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Our 14 students arrived this past week, excited and ready for adventure! We spent one day in the capital city of Mérida, the headquarters of our program, and then set off for four days of orientation throughout the state of Yucatán. Our first day in Merida, enjoying breakfast. We kept the students busy, between exploring the wilderness and its plants and their uses, to a workshop in basket weaving with the local material “bejuco” in which each student produced their own work of art. We also had our first experience sleeping in hammocks, a necessary skill to earn your badge as a “Yucateco”. Apart from being woken up by roosters in the morning, everyone lasted their first night in hammocks. Our first night in hammocks! The next day we tested our strength and repelled 200 ft into an underground cave. Once inside th